nice: I bought me a DEC DE500-BA off of e*ay (the only NIC i could find that's supposed to run with 3.3V PCI and also has OPENSTEP drivers). IT WORKS! in fact, I am writing this post from my ALIX/OPENSTEP box using OmniWeb 3.0

much to my surprise i was able to get OPENSTEP up and running on this small embedded ALIX mainboard from pcengines (costs about 150 USD including the case)
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regards,
michael

Dear,
I know, thread is a bit outdated... but I would like to install OpenStep on a very similar ThinClient (Wyse SX0, AMD Geode, IDE). Maybe for use as a little webserver.
How do you install the system on it?

I was able to install Openstep 4.2 on a older ThinkPad 390 with floppies and CD, but this TP has no network to "export". So I've no idea howto make a boot-CD and or a "image" from a running system like one of a forum member does.

I've to take a look on BIOS of my Wyse SX0; I suppose there is FDD emulation, too.

I meant a 2,88 image to build a start CD, not a real disk. My problem ist that my openstep running laptop do not has any network or other possibilities to "extract" a image. I tried VirtualBox, but my Thinkpad has no PS2-mouse and a usb-mouse won't work with openstep... (or there is somewhere a misconfiguration)

Hi,
so installing over USB-FDD worked for me, too. OPENSTEP 4.2 is running on a FUTRO S400.

Next prob: I've a DEC21140 10/100 ethernet-PCI-card. Normally it should work with OPENSTEP drivers, but I can't see it on network. IP-address, router, gateway were installed over SimpleNetworkStarter (as root). Same procedure with HostManager (local)...

Ethernetcard was working fine with BeOS, so it has no defect... Driver used is DEC21140 100MB/s (4.02).

I suppose there ia another problem with this DEC cards, I read something about similar issues in another older thread in a bsd-forum.

I bought a 3COM card, it works now.

But I've difilculties in set up network; there are not the TCP/IP entries, but the other parts. I tried to setup this client in a "mixed network", like NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration Manual, I installed nsca-httpd, but I can't reach the pages from outside (another PC)...